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Nutritional Quality of the Diets of US Public School Children and the Role of the School Meal Programs

Melissa A. Clark and Mary Kay Fox

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 3: School Meal Costs and Revenues (Summary)

Christopher W. Logan, Vinh Tran, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver, Matthew Zeidenberg and Michele Mendelson

The Final Evaluation Report on the National Home Health Prospective Payment Demonstration: Agencies Reduce Visits While Preserving Quality

Valerie Cheh

Biased Selection in the Tefra HMO/CMP Program

Jerrold W. Hill and Randall S. Brown

Reopening Schools Safely: New Evidence on Mitigating COVID-19 Spread

Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic

Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education

Brian P. Gill, Jennifer S. Lerner and Paul Meosky

Migration Patterns for Medicaid Enrollees: 2005-2007

David K. Baugh and Shinu Verghese

Changing Circumstances: Experiences of Child SSI Recipients Before and After Their Age-18 Redetermination for Adult Benefits (Journal Article)

Jeffrey Hemmeter, Jacqueline Kauff and David Wittenburg

Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment

James Mabli and Hande Inanc

The SSDI Trust Fund: New Solutions to an Old Problem

David Stapleton and David Wittenburg

A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool

Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson

Statistical Power for Regression Discontinuity Designs in Education: Empirical Estimates of Design Effects Relative to Randomized Controlled Trials

John Deke and Lisa Dragoset

Quality Reporting on Medicare's Compare Sites: Lessons Learned from Consumer Research, 2001-2014

Margaret Gerteis, Cicely Thomas, Lauren Blatt, Sally Crelia, Alyson Marano Ward, Kelly Moriarty, Monica Sarmiento, Myra Tanamor and Russ Tisinger

Iowa Families That Left TANF: How Are They Faring Two Years Later?

Jacqueline Kauff, Thomas Fraker and Julita Milliner-Waddell

Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment

Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown

Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center Creating a Data Model to Analyze TANF Caseloads

Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson

A Study of Federal Spending on Diabetes: An Opportunity for Federal Leadership in Diabetes

Marsha Gold and Ronette Briefel

Identifying and Benchmarking the Number of Medicaid Beneficiaries with Comprehensive Benefits in 2017 (Brief)

Laura Nolan, Allison Barrett, Mary Allison Geibel, Kimberly Proctor and Jessie Parker

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2013 (Summary)

Kelsey Farson Gray

Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction of Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas (Journal Article)

Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson

The Evaluation of Teacher Preparation Models: Design Report

Paul Decker, John Deke, Amy Johnson, Daniel Mayer, John Mullens and Peter Schochet

The Benefits and Costs of the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Sarah Dolfin and Peter Z. Schochet

Coastal Medical's Leadership Academies: Investing in Staff Development and Collaboration (Case Study)

Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry

Prevalence of Unclaimed Prescriptions at Military Pharmacies

Dominick Esposito, Eric Schone, Thomas Williams, Su Liu, Karen CyBulski, Rita Stapulonis and Nancy Clusen

The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts

Craig Thornton and Paul Decker

How Do Parents Evaluate and Select Schools? Evidence From a Survey Experiment

Shira Haderlein

Charter Schools and the Public Interest

Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd

Medicare Beneficiaries and Choice in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, 2000

Marsha Gold, Cheryl Young and Beth Stevens

Creating Paths to Father Involvement: Lessons from Early Head Start

Andrew Burwick and Jeanne Bellotti

Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AIAN FACES Spring 2020 Data Tables and Study Design

Myley Dang, Sara Bernstein, Elizabeth Doran, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Natalie Reid, Myah Scott, Sharika Rakibullah, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Nikki Aikens, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Karen Cunnyngham

Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries

Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore

Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards

Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill

Disease Management Technologies: User Needs Can Guide Decision Making

Rachel Shapiro and Lorenzo Moreno

W2 Converting to Wisconsin Works: Where Did Families Go When AFDC Ended in Milwaukee?

Rebecca Swartz, Jacqueline Kauff, Lucia Nixon, Tom Fraker, Jay Hein and Susan Mitchell

Improving the Income Allocation Procedures in MATH

Pat Doyle and Carole Trippe

2012 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Second Annual Report to Congress

Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Megan Hague-Angus and Caroline Massad Francis

SCAN Policies Database Fact Sheet

Elizabeth Weigensberg and Nuzhat Islam

Synthesis of 10 Case Studies: Exploring Medicaid and SCHIP Enrollment Trends and Their Links to Policy and Practice

Judith Wooldridge, Christopher Trenholm and Angela Gerolamo

Potential Effects of Program Changes on Food Stamp Program Error Rates

James C. Ohls and Jennifer Schore

Working with Out-of-School Youth from Minority Backgrounds: What CILs Offer and What They Value

Stacie Feldman, Purvi Sevak and Mira Wang

Practice Characteristics of Primary Care Nurse Practitioners and Physicians

Peter I. Buerhaus, Catherine M. DesRoches, Robert Dittus and Karen Donelan

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

Lara K. Hulsey, Robert G. Wood and Anu Rangarajan

Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?

Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk

Touchpoints for Addressing Substance Use Issues in Home Visiting: Executive Summary of Phase 1 Final Report

Mynti Hossain, Lauren Akers, Patricia Del Grosso, Marisa Shenk, Michael Cavanaugh and Melissa Azur

Focusing on the Boys: The Longer-Term Impacts of Wise Guys in Davenport, Iowa

Reginald D. Covington, Robert G. Wood and Brian Goesling

Options for Building Coaching Practices into TANF Programs: A Comparison of Five Models

Michelle Derr and Kristen Joyce

Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?

Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag

What Have We Learned Using Merged Administrative Data from the Social Security Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration?

David Stapleton and Frank Martin

Leading the Way: Characteristics and Early Experiences of Selected Early Head Start Programs. Volume I: Cross-Site Perspectives

Ellen Eliason Kisker, John M. Love, Helen Raikes, Kimberly Boller, Diane Paulsell, Linda Rosenberg, Kathleen Coolahan and Lisa J. Berlin

Rewarding Physicians for Their Patients' Health Outcomes: What Can Medicare Learn from Education's Value-Added Models?

Greg Peterson and Eric Schone

AAPOR Report on Big Data

Task Force Members Include: Lilli Japec, Frauke Kreuter, Marcus Berg, Paul Biemer, Paul Decker, Cliff Lampe, Julia Lane, Cathy O'Neil and Abe Usher

Paying More Wisely: Effects of Payment Reforms on Evidence-Based Clinical Decision-Making

Timothy K. Lake, Eugene C. Rich, Christal Stone Valenzano and Myles M. Maxfield

Maternal and Child Characteristics Associated with Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices

Kristy Hendricks, Ronette Briefel, Timothy Novak and Paula Ziegler

Case Studies of Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants: Final Report

Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jennifer O'Day, Beatrice Birman, Steven Hurlburt, Michelle Nayfack, Clare Halloran, Andrea Boyle, Seth Brown, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Rose Goff, Linda Rosenberg and Lara Hulsey

Patterns of Older Americans' Health Care Utilization Over Time

Richard J. Manski, John F. Moeller, Haiyan Chen, Jody Schimmel, Patricia A. St. Clair and John Pepper

Thinking Through Evaluation Design Options

Barbara Devaney and Peter Rossi

Improving Access to Early Care and Education: An Equity-Focused Policy Research Agenda

Jessica F. Harding and Diane Paulsell

Early Head Start Children in Grade 5: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project Study Sample

Cheri A. Vogel, Yange Xue, Emily M. Moiduddin, Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Ellen Eliason Kisker

Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology

Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen

Providing Public Workforce Services to Job Seekers: 30-Month Impact Findings on the WIA Adult and Dislocated Worker Programs, Technical Supplement

Dana Rotz, Paul Burkander, Mary Grider, Kenneth Fortson, Linda Molinari, Elias Sanchez-Eppler and Lindsay Cattell

National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook

Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones

Trends in Food Stamp Program Participation Rates: 2000 to 2006

Kari Wolkwitz

Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities

Bonnie O'Day, Crystal Blyler, Benjamin Fischer, Claire Gill, Todd Honeycutt, Rebecca Kleinman, Joseph Mastrianni, Eric Morris, Lisa Schottenfeld, Allison Thompkins, Allison Wishon-Siegwarth and Michelle Bailey

SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future

Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach

The Evaluation of the Alabama Food Stamp Cash-Out Demonstration Vol. 1: Recipient Impacts

Thomas M. Fraker, Alberto Martini, James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza and Elizabeth A. Quinn

Evidence Snapshot: Financial Incentives

Jillian Stein and Dana Rotz

Leading the Change: A Comparison of the Principal Supervisor Role in Principal Supervisor Initiative Districts and Other Urban Districts

Ellen B. Goldring, Laura K. Rogers and Melissa A. Clark

Elementary Math Programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: A Comparison of Everyday Math and Harcourt Math

Brian Gill, Catherine Nelson, Julia Kaufman and Kevin Booker

State of Arkansas and Hennepin County, Minnesota. Improving Participation in Food Stamps: Strategies and Challenges

Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell

Promoting Children's Learning and Development in Conflict-Affected Countries: Testing Change Process in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

J. Lawrence Aber, Carly Tubbs, Catalina Torrente and Peter F. Halpin

Teacher Turnover and Access to Effective Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia, Study Snapshot

Erin Dillon and Steven Malick

Minnesota Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA) Project Demonstration: Final Evaluation Report

Purvi Sevak, Matthew Kehn, Todd Honeycutt and Gina Livermore

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Adult Education Programs: Findings from Recent Research

Mary T. Moore and Tim Silva

Unexpected Arrivals: The Spillover Effects of Mid-Year Entry on Stable Student Achievement in New York City

Emilyn Ruble Whitesell, Leanna Stiefel and Amy Schwartz

Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) First Follow-Up Methodology Report

David DesRoches, Tom Barton, Frank Potter, Betsy Santos and Zhanyun Zhao

Supporting Grant Recipients Through Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) Efforts: Lessons from the Sexual Risk Avoidance Education (SRAE) CQI Pilot

Annie Buonaspina, Samantha Zelenack and Brittany Tabora

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report

Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg

What the Evidence Says: Intimate Partner Violence and Home Visiting

Katie Niland, Marykate Zukiewicz and Emily Sama-Miller

Youth and Family Participation in the Governance of Residential Treatment Facilities

Jonathan D. Brown, Henry T. Ireys, Kamala Allen, Tara Krissik, Kirsten Barrett, Sheila A. Pires and Gary Blau

Rigorous Evaluation of Roads to Success: Design Report

Duncan Chaplin, Martha Bleeker and Claire Smither

Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Illinois KidCare Program

Amy Westpfahl Lutzky and Heidi Kapustka

The Right Help for the Right Workers at the Right Time Can Keep Them on the Job

Steve Bruns

A Guide to Real-World Evaluations of Primary Care Interventions: Some Practical Advice

Deborah Peikes, Erin Fries Taylor, Janice Genevro and David Meyers

Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use

Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren

Consumer and Provider Perspectives on Shared Decision Making: A Systematic Review of the Peer-Reviewed Literature

Nyna Williams and Chris Fleming

Evaluation of Demonstration Projects to End Childhood Hunger (EDECH): The Virginia 365 Project

Charlotte Cabili, Pia Caronongan, Philip Gleason, Ronette Briefel, Nicholas Redel, Sarah Forrestal, Gregory Chojnacki and Breanna Wakar

After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth (In Focus Brief)

Roberto Agodini, Barbara Harris, Neil Seftor, Janine Remillard and Melissa Thomas

Addressing the Epidemic of Childhood Obesity Through School-Based Interventions: What Has Been Done and Where Do We Go from Here?

Karen E. Peterson and Mary Kay Fox

Proposed Criteria for Selecting the WIC Food Packages: A Preliminary Report of the Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages

Prepared by the Food Nutrition Board

Making Effective Use of Postsecondary Data in K-12 Education Settings

Luke Heinkel, Kristin Hallgren, Brian Gill and Megan Shoji

Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: 2012

Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili and Stephen Bell

The Characteristics and Motivations of Participants in the Self-Employment Training Demonstration

Caroline Massad Francis, Irma Perez-Johnson, Samia Amin and Mary Anne Anderson

Primary Care Practice Transformation Introduces Different Staff Roles

Kaylyn E. Swankoski, Deborah N. Peikes, Maya Palakal, Nancy Duda and Timothy J. Day

The Struggle to Sustain Employment: The Effectiveness of the Postemployment Services Demonstration

Anu Rangarajan and Tim Novak

Best Practices in Ensuring Data Quality in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS)

Sarah Friese, Kathryn Tout and Gretchen Kirby

Overview of the Independent Evaluation of CPC+

Various Authors

An Examination of the Maternal Health Quality of Care Landscape in India

So O'Neil, Katie Naeve and Rajani Ved

Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers (Appendix A)

Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor

Sensitivity of Teacher Value-Added Estimates to Student and Peer Control Variables (Journal Article)

Matthew T. Johnson, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill